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Résumé, not rèsumè.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
An entire article so the author can say "First", you know ... just in case it happens.
Daniel Kahneman Sees ‘Train-Wreck Looming’ for Social Psychology
Ask HN: HN user with html/css live editor app. What's the site?
I thought it was http://www.liveeditor.com/, but I was wrong. It is called "Live Editor" or some other derivative.

It was marketed as "click and edit like in Firebug".

Thanks!
The following is a list of people this post probably wasn't mean for:

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Apparently (and logically) it only applies to original art, excepting literary and musical manuscripts:

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/internal_market/busin...

Therefore it seems that it has absolutely no effect on art reproduction, and of course printed books of any kind.
I think only people from Google, or related to Google, because they love Android, see potential in it.

I'm from Germany and I know a handful of people who use it, but only because they are Android fans and hate Facebook.

But everyday people give a shit about G+. It offers nothing to make it more interesting to average Joe. I have strong problems to convince people using Twitter. They think its useless too.

Therefore, I don't believe all the positive media about G+. Where are the markets apart from the groups I mentioned above?

And I have to agree about the social IQ. I've read it before, but its good to see it coming back again. Google is a place of engineers. I get that feeling when I use Android or other Google products.

Compare that to iOS, I feel charmed when using it. Using it, is despite all limitations more satisfying, because it feels like a new age. Taking an end to all the negative experiences on a pc.

Android on the other side wants to bring all the experiences you can have on a pc together with new touch/mobile paradigms to make everything happen. But that drags down the whole experience.

Well, from G+ to iOS, to Android. I just wanted to give an example of that social IQ. They need to think about the next thing and start searching for the social life of the next decade. Facebook is the social center of this decade.
It's a good way to practice (atleast some of the vim) commands without actually having to do that in vim.
3 ways to come up with startup / product ideas - fast
The difference is extreme. In the Space Shuttle case NASA signed off on every little detail of the design and manufacture of the vehicle and told Rockwell to go build it, deliver it to them, and then they undertook operations with the vehicle. This is very comparable to, say, the US military procuring and operating a fighter jet such as the F-22.

Now let's look at SpaceX's Falcon/Dragon. SpaceX financed, designed, and proved the Falcon-9 launch vehicle on its own. To its own specs. To its own design. And to its own internal budget. Similarly, SpaceX began designing the Dragon pressurized spacecraft on its own. NASA came along and offered up the potential for a contract for resupply of the ISS, they did not specify the design or method of construction of the launch vehicle and spacecraft to achieve this goal, nor did they fund the complete development costs of such a system. Instead, SpaceX stepped up and said "hey, we have something that we think could fit your needs" (as did Orbital Sciences Corp.) and then NASA provided some moderate funding to help with specialized development costs for ISS resupply and then extended the opportunity for ISS resupply contracts after a successful demonstration. This is comparable to buying a plane ticket.

SpaceX's NASA contracts are quite lucrative for them (because they can provide a service at a lower price than the competition but it is a very highly priced service) but even without them they are poised to reap massive profits from bog-standard commercial launch services. They have a contract with Orbcomm to launch 18 satellites, and contracts with MDA Corp., SES, Thaicom, NSPO, Asiasat, SS/Loral, Argentina, Israel, and others to launch commercial satellites over the coming years. Because SpaceX is able to set the retail price of its launches at the current market floor (somewhere around the per kg price of the Long March, Soyuz, or Proton) despite their underlying costs being much lower they are able to pocket a healthy profit per launch, which should fatten their wallets mightily even over the next few years let alone the next decade or so.
I've dated someone studying Biology/Biochemistry for a while. This was interesting because the field itself is interesting so we had a lot to talk about. She was doing a PhD in a subject that was important to me (diabetes) and that I got to know quite a bit about.

Being a curious person I then started to read more about it and found a published study that was done at a different university on the exact same subject. There was no difference between experimental set-up, the parameters and the results achieved to that date matched.

When confronted with this she responded that she already knew that, her PhD advisor had selected the study and had presented it to the grant givers as a novel approach. He clearly already knew what the outcome would be, and the fact that it would be positive and that the grant gatekeepers would not find out about the other study until it was either too late (which would mean they'd keep quiet because they had not done their jobs properly) or at all (because nobody really cared). She didn't want to rock the boat just wanted her PhD over and done with, confronting the advisor would have been the end of her career for sure, whereas duplicating a bunch of work that you already know the outcome of is ok.

This study was quite extensive and burned through a whole pile of resources.

At the time I was quite shocked by all this, that in academia there would be such cynical misconduct. According to the lady this was perfectly normal and par for the course in her field.

It's one thing for a group to openly try to duplicate the results of another, it is a different thing to use the vastness of the scientific body as a means to re-do success stories found elsewhere to increase your local standing.

There is a Samwer Brothers parallel in there somewhere.
A URL is not a way of saying where data is.

It is a way of naming a data query.

HTTP GET is not a way of retrieving data.

It is a a way of launching a query.

In the general case, the data is going to be in an enterprise datawarehouse divided over 200 tables each of which could be terabytes in size.

The schema design will mean that each table individually is meaningless, and you will probably not understand it all without a lot of documentation.

If you were allowed to pull a table using a GET it would almost certainly be very expensive for the service provider, and might kill your download connection.

APIs were invented to deal with these cases.
This is one of my major annoyances with Dropbox — I'd love to shift everything to my Dropbox, but the slow sync speed is painful.

I signed up a long time ago for an AeroFS invite but had no joy. Anyone got one they could share? I'd love to try this out.
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> Particularly in non-scientific-method subjects like
> psychology?

That's a strong statement, especially when you include the more biology-leaning subfields like cognitive psychology. The methodology of modern psychology is fairly sound.
I don't see how this would stop you from using other computers when you can sign into your chrome account anywhere and instantly have this extension installed. I can't relate to your reasoning here; I want my computers to work exactly how I want them to work as efficiently as possible with no compromises.
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You beat me to it! The Galaxy S was an ok phone, as it came stock. OK that is, if you liked waiting - a lot! But once I flashed a custom firmware onto it, I would have sworn I had a brand new phone! Then I read more about RFS, which only made me more angry at Samsung for crippling a great phone. Luckily my Galaxy S2 exhibits no such symptoms and is a great phone. I'm looking forward to upgrading to the S3 now.
The data is there in an HTML page. I'm looking at it. I just want to stick ".xml" or ".json" on the end and see the exact same thing in a machine readable form.

Whatever complex enterprise data warehousing you are doing to get it in my browser as an HTML page is very impressive, I'm sure.

It can be as complicated as you want it to be if you want to offer something more complicated than that. But for the basic use case, I fail to see why exactly it has to be more complicated than using HTTP to GET things that are on the damn web. And all the talk of APIs makes people think it needs to be complicated when it doesn't.
The only way you can claim that a developer can make 10x the regular salary, is to have that developer do something other more profitable than development and claim that that makes him or her more excellent. It's a circular argument: "you are doing something that makes lots of money, therefore what you are doing is more excellent than someone making less money." No, making money is about being good at making money. Not to perform outstanding work.

The quote is right, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is for Communism, which has a different slogan than Socialism.
This is definitely true.

For clarity for those who aren't exactly clear with all this, this only applies when the instruction set is actually compressed somehow - not for stack based machines in general.
Chibi-Scheme
Chibi-Scheme is a very small library intended for use as an extension and scripting language in C programs. In addition to support for lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself runs in an isolated heap allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously in different OS threads. The default language is R7RS Scheme, including first-class continuations and low-and-high-level hygienic macros.
I love AeroFS. Although it is missing many of Dropbox's features (e.g. web storage of files, better version history, etc), the fact that it is extremely fast and there is no cap on P2P sync makes it my weapon of choice when sharing files/folders with colleagues.
Does anyone have any other ideas for coming up with product / startup ideas?
Increasing Productivity is a Load of Bullshit
Yep, I like the idea of reddit-style online identity. It's almost effortless to create dozens of them, you can use them in any subreddit, and you don't even need an e-mail address to sign up.

Hopefully, if & when everyone starts using Persona, it will be nearly as simple to start using a random website as it is to join a random subreddit, and we will finally be able to stop being members of excessively large "communities" like reddit and fb.
> Because SpaceX is able to set the retail price of its launches at the current market floor (somewhere around the per kg price of the Long March, Soyuz, or Proton) despite their underlying costs being much lower they are able to pocket a healthy profit per launch, which should fatten their wallets mightily even over the next few years let alone the next decade or so.

Then once they pay off investors this way, we'll start seeing even more cost reduction.
Sent you an invite :)
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I don't know exactly what you mean by underclass (though I think I've seen a similar comment of yours), but one answer is what plinkplonk said in this thread: immigration restrictions, combined with the concentration of "elite" software companies in the US.
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On your web page you say
"I just want the data on your website in a machine readable format. XML, JSON, RDF, CSV, YAML, I don’t particularly give a fuck.
...
I don’t want a relationship with you, I just want to have a fiddle with your data."

But in your comment you say
"The data is there in an HTML page. ... I just want to stick .xml or .json on the end and see the exact same thing in a machine readable form."

In the first case, you are asking for the absence of an API. In the second case, you are asking for an API that apes the user interface.

I just wanted to point out that that's an important difference.

EDIT: It is not correct to say the data is in the web page already, it is more accurate to say the needed query result is in the web page.
I don't think so. The "spread the work around" will be through the diversity of COTS projects, of which SpaceX is only one. But SpaceX has contracts, which could keep them profitable for long enough to pay off investors. Then they can drop the bottom out of the space transport market.
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Got back pain?
Well, here's a solution that worked for me:

Standing Desks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_desk

---

Sure, I know yoga works and I should get some exercise in the gym or should run in the park.

The reality is, I don't consistently do any of that. I'm lazy. And mostly undisciplined.

---

What has really worked for me is using a standing desk. That's it.

No workouts, no yoga, not chiropractor, no massage.

Just standing up while coding i.e. 4-6 hours a day.

Sure your legs hurt a bit and you get tired. But that's good.

And if you're engrossed in programming (like most good programmers are during their workday), you don't feel any of these because your mind is lost in the context of your app anyway.

I've been at it for two weeks now and my back pain is almost entirely gone.

I've also noticed:

* Considerable improvement in my posture

* Better blood circulation (I meditate so I observe this)

* Feel more energetic throughout the day

* And (I apologise if this is improper) regular discharges of nutritionary inputs. I guess gravity does its job here.. ;-)

I've not read these on any medical blog nor have I ripped it off a medical journal. This is what I've observed in myself over the last two weeks and I thought others may benefit from my experience.

Give it a try for a week, I'm sure you'll start observing the benefits in yourself!
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I noticed from your profile you wrote LOGO for python — I did the same for processing! http://terrapin.sourceforge.net/ Great minds :)
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This is something I made for the http://hacknow.org contest. It allows restaurant, bar, club... owners to let their customers choose the music they love.

It uses CC-licensed music to avoid copyright problems.

I just wanted to show you.
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What an ignorant blanket statement this is. DA or MOP receptor agonism is fun no matter where you are.
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I've always been vaguely aware that JPEG gives better results at a constant quality setting as increase the size of the image.

Firstly - the 8x8 blocks become smaller relative to the image but in addition to this I think that the it's just in the nature of compression algorithms in general and lossy compression in particular to produce better results when there's more source material to work with.

However I didn't expect it to improve enough to enable one to but the Gordian knot that Retina displays have forced upon us by using 2x resolution images across the board.

I would imagine that not all source images respond quite as well as others.

Also - using 2x images for all devices will surely create a quadrupling of RAM requirements which might cause performance issues.
No, I'm specifically making the point that content negotiation and RESTful "APIs" aren't really APIs, they are just serving data up in the same way that you are serving HTML up. The whole API thing is just a social construction we have with these bizarre conventions around it.

It may be necessary to have big complicated APIs some of the time. Great. Mostly, it's not necessary: you have a URI structure, you have pointers between records (hyperlinks), you just need a machine readable representation of the data. HTTP and web architecture already does that. You don't need a special fancy API with things I need to learn and understand.

On reading your clarification: okay. You term what I call "data" as a "query result". Then it's a merely semantic distinction you are drawing. And, I'd suggest, probably an irrelevant one from the perspective of the data consumer. There's a URL for a resource. I want the stuff there. I don't care whether it's in a database or how it's stored. That's just plumbing.
This is incredible. I can't believe it's taken this long for someone to realise this (at least, it doesn't seem like common knowledge to me). Just commenting for the benefit of anyone without a retina display -- the differences really are stunning. It's like night and day, and to do that while still reducing file sizes seems crazy.

So, this raises the question: should this become standard practice from now on. If not, why not?

Poor headline though.
Your first link is just a bunch of vague content-free assertions. Life is like an RPG - so as a white guy, it takes less practice to unlock the "computer programming" skill? And blacks just get less Str, Int and Dex?

Your second link claims that if you are a collectivist with niche tastes who's collective is poorly represented, you won't be too happy. True - if you assign high utility to being around others of the same race, being a minority will suck.

I lived for over a year without the benefits of "white privilege". I didn't speak to a single person of my race, quite a few housing societies wouldn't let me in and people ascribed many of my choices to my race/nationality. Basically I lost every single "privilege" listed at your second link. It wasn't a big deal, probably because I don't really care about having white friends.
Can I have an invite too? Pleeaassseee. :)
Sure, I'll just send it to the email address that you've conveniently included in your profile. Oh wait :)
In fairness, I think there's a difference between being too wordy in a description, and not even bothering to try ("My startup is too complex to be described in a paragraph"). The former indicates a lack of discipline, but the latter hints at a sort of naive arrogance.

Both, however, indicate that the founder doesn't fully grasp his own project. That's the bigger issue. If you can't describe an idea clearly and succinctly, you probably haven't mastered the idea in the first place. The selling proposition of an idea shouldn't be an afterthought; it should be baked into the idea itself. After all, great ideas are usually solutions to great problems.

The author makes a good point about not wasting the short time you're given to present something to people who can help you. It's an important point. But to me, it's almost a side issue. It's a symptom of something deeper. If you can't get your head around your own idea, then your idea -- or at least your conception of it -- may have some fundamental problems.
Yes- renting out is against most lease agreements, but in this case: No- the lease agreement was a custom lease agreement set up by OP. How do I know? I used to live there.
There are just those devs that don't have the privilege of working with something that isn't .Net. This provides those individuals with a way to experience frictionless web development in the stack their tied to :-).
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Discontinuing the line and replacing all broken cases for free. I changed mine twice at no charge.
Nit picking: it's mobile rather then cell in UK.

Otherwise it looks interesting, but I usually see more details. It looks like there's much more to tell about the research papers. Also the Accenture work is all in one block, but I can see a number of areas you worked on - is it worth separating them with some more description? I'd also mention the group leader part (or repeat it in skills) on its own.

Then again it comes from a person used to receiving 5+ pages cv prepared by agencies. To me your cv looks good, but I'm not sure if someone from HR would be happy - if you have any friends in that area, show it to them too .
What would this get someone who already has Dropbox and Air Drop on OS X?

Answer: compatibility! Now that walled gardens are going up, there's pain in getting through the walls. If they can make this compatible with Dropbox, it would be a great combination. There's also the possibility that Dropbox could add Bonjour/Rendevous to their client side software, reducing AeroFS to just a feature.
Those who are recommending Pentadactyl, can you explain why it's worth going through this installation hoop? I like to use FF beta (16 currently) but there is no Pentadactyl support. I use Vimperator.
I can see how that can be confusing. Rails is a development stack. It gives you exactly what's needed to get an app up and running quickly. It also provides the means to keep the app maintainable. Oak tries to provide that same experience to .Net devs. These components can be used independently, but the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.
I've always thought it was a nifty chip, but one I couldn't think of an application for. Things like the 18-bit word size can throw some developers off -- the last time I looked at the chip some audio application guys were kvetching that they really need 24 bits for their applications. I'm skeptical that the architecture is a good fit for number crunching, but perhaps I'm just blind to all the numeric apps that 18-bit integers are nifty for.

yet like said at the beginning, it doesn't stop me from wishing I had an excuse to play with them. Blazing speed with lots of cores, there ought to be some applications that for that sort of parallel horsepower.
http://rack.github.com/ - basically a Rails adapter for a webserver.
But alcohol manufacturing processes have plenty of quality control applied to them. Not to mention that prescription medicines have a high incidence of being used recreationally. This point is moot.
How (And Why) I'm Circumventing Twitter's API Instead of Using It
Biggest problem in selling to enterprises:

The CEO talks about wanting scalable cloud solutions using hypervisor technology without block-based attached storage.

The people using the system are treating it as Excel with a slightly crappier UI.

In most large organizations, the problem isn't providing a way to let their large amount of data scale.
The problem is getting people to even input that data into a useful format so that it can be analyzed at all.
You will spend man-months designing a system that handles all edge cases only to find out that they can't or won't even enter any useful configuration and support data to make it usable.

Everyone wants to talk about how your resource allocation and planning algorithms work with mobile technician work forces. No one can answer whether these fancy systems actually save costs or increase efficiency. And they don't care either.

We sell software to enterprises. It is a kafka-esque nightmare.
Application-level SLAs without giving up the economics of multi-tenant:

Any one who wants to both have his cake and eat it is destined for disappointment.
From what I read, they aren't aiming for an IPO, so they are definitely here to stay - or at least they think so.

Costolo's Charlie Rose interview made it sound like Twitter and its success happened completely by accident, and the company will now try to capitalize on it instead of trying to understand what made Twitter successful and grow that aspect of it.

It's only going to get worse from here.
can I have one as well, please?
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Sent :) and this was my last one.
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I'm all out of invites, sorry.
Ok. Updated. (Also, sorry!!)